Do you find it stunning or unsurprising that a former FBI director admitted in an interview that in its counter intelligence efforts, their mission was to keep liberal progressives out of government?

Also, I think it’s really eerie that he’d admit this so close to MLK Day. Maybe I’m being too conspiratorial though…

I’m stunned that he’d admit it, yet NOT surprised that it “might have” occurred. Any chance that this might be right wing propaganda to turn the left against the FBI at least until trump is no longer under investigation???

What he was talking about was J Edgar Hoover’s COINTELPRO.

COINTELPRO has been well documented and condemned by both the right and the left.

Also, he was not THE Director, he was a Deputy Director, which is high in the FBI but not the head.

Law enforcement is generally, what we call in my country, “rechtsversifft”.
A position of power and violence does predominantly attract this kind of people.

Well don’t think that FOX viewers took that admission to heart. The message THEY receive is that the FBI failed in its efforts to prevent the infiltration of leftists into its sacred ranks & THAT is the reason for the current “persecution” of our saintly President.

What’s stunning about the admission is that it violates the cardinal rule of denying any allegation that the agency is not apolitical.

He isn’t referrring to COINTELPRO, which was defunct when Terry Turchie joined the FBI as a ‘clerical support employee’ in 1972. He wasn’t an agent until 1976. COINTELPRO was an active offensive operation against outside organizations.

In the video, he’s talking about hiring practices.

Turchie left the FBI almost 20 years ago and I take everything he has to say with a pinch of salt. Fox News seems to have wheeled him into the limelight only because he has negative things to say about the FBI.